Originally Posted by FX4 Matt

I'm on the Falcon its a turbo fan plane fastest in the guard

Originally Posted by FX41

They are big in combating drug smuggling correct?

Originally Posted by MDK

I'm not CC but have a buddy that's in it and never been to impressed with the lifestyle. If you want to fly a helicopter then you should be a warrant officer in the Army. I'm AF and even though I'm a computer guru I've gone on 71 convoys and have had many IED's exploding around me, deaths, etc... I'll put my resume against anyone in the CC. Granted I know very little about the CC but in all honesty it's very different from the primary branches, I've not met one CC in the Camps around here but then again the CC has a different mission than the main branches. Your dad might be a desk jocky, hell my dad is a retired Lt Col in the AF as well and he was but when you get to that rank you're bound to be and if you want to be full blood officer once you get past O-3 your rocking a adminstrative job even in the Army! You want helicopters and want to make a difference in the war then go warrant in the Army, you want to fly planes join the AF and be an officer, you want to fly a copter and be mostly statesides then join the CC and do SAR like the gentleman said above. There are a ton of Navy personnel over here to which the CC is a sister branch that say they don't follow that same deployment rules and various other things the main branches do so you might enjoy it that way.

Originally Posted by signmaster

The CG isn't a branch of the military, but has been treated like one in time of need. They have fallen under the Department of the Treasury, The Department of Transportation, and now Homeland Security. They have never been a sister branch to the Navy, as they came to be and evolved in completely different ways.

As for all officers quickly becoming desk jockeys, you should know better than that being where you are stationed. There were a lot of O5s and O6s flying active roles in combat operations in recent years.

If you lack respect for the CG you should study up on your history. From the initial Life Saving Stations, port security, wartime, drug interdiction, and many others, the Coast Guard has a heritage as strong as any military branch in the US. They are almost as old as the Marines and Army, and have about 150 years on the Air Force.


I've never been in the Coast Guard, but if you're willing to put your resume up against anyone in the CG you might want to consider the fact that the landing craft drivers on the D-Day invasions were in the CG. People of our (younger) generations might should realize that they have earned their due respect in conflicts much bigger than we have seen in our lifetimes.